collate
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
collate (collates, present participle collating; past and past participle collated)
- (transitive) To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.
- The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.
- I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.
- (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101
- Detest your own age. Build a better one. And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends. For which purpose one must collate editions in the British Museum.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101
- (transitive) To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.
- Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.
- (obsolete) To bestow or confer.
- (transitive, Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.
- French: collationner
- German: abgleichen, kollationieren, vergleichen, zuordnen
- Portuguese: cotejar
- Russian: сопоставля́ть
- Spanish: cotejar
- German: mischen, vergleichen
- Russian: располага́ть
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